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The Marxist Philosophical Revolution in the View of the Modernity Issues
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This thesis tries to give a new explanation of the real significance of Marxist philosophical revolution in the narrative background of modernity issues. According to my explanation, the reason why Marxist philosophy is a revolution in the contemporary philosophy history lies in , in the fundamental standpoint of anti-modernity and anti-capitalism, that Marx determines the whole tradition of the modern and contemporary western academic philosophy as a part of the bourgeois ideology, whose henemony must be ended by the future philosophy breaking with the acdemic philosophy thoroughly. It is just the real significance of Marxist philosophical revolution.From the background of anti-modernity issues, I further think that the basic dimension of Marxist philosophical revolution is an ethical one, which is not of theformalizedethics, but of the new substantive ethics subject to criticizing the anti-morals of capitalism. The transformation from the formalized ethics to the substantive ethics makes up the real content of Marxist philosophical revolution. What is called formalized ethics means the universally usedformalizedmethods, that is, on condition that the justice of actual social institution arrangement isn't involved, the abstract inquiry for the ethical concepts as goodwill, happiness, freedom etc. and a whole set of ethical standards. Marx himself didn't accept it at all. He called itbourgeois bias that conceals bourgeois interests. Maxist ethics is asubstantive ethics, which can be manifested in two aspects. First, Marx's critique to capitalism is ethical, which Marx points out that the capitalist system dominating the world history is an immoral social institution arrangement running counter to humanity. Second, the ideal of emancipating all mankind undertaken by Marx, above all, is an ethical one, which asks to achieve a both moral and happy